The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-12

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Frederick Mueller ATTEMPTED sui
eide by cutting his throat in Washing.
ton on the 7th. He is likely to re-
cover. He said at the hospital tina
failure to secure employment. WORRY
over his wife and child in Philadel
pllia, and hunger, all tempted HIM t.
the deed.
Near the Lebanon Valley Furnace
in Lebanan county, Penna., on tn,
morning of the 9Th, an iron tank on
truck filed with red hot cinders COLI
ded with another car and the hot
metal was thrown over Peter Reddin
ger, aged As, and Henry Kurtz. aged
36 Reddinger died soon after the acct
dent, and KurtZ died on the morning
of the It'll.
The earthquake reported by West
ern kilograms on the 9th was very gen.
orally felt throughout central and
southern Illinois and Indiana. 1t also
gave the city of st. Louis a shake.
which was especially felt in the out
skirts.
The wholesale drug store of NJ. T.
Sprague & Co., in Mobile, was burned
early on the morning of the Tth. Loss,
S28, 900; insurance 1000. James Nc
Donnell was killed and Frank Nc
Learney fatally injured by the fall Of a
real wall.
Near De Kalb, on the 7th a fight
occurred between four members of a
family named White on the one side
and Colonel John Z. Rosser, his fifteen
year old son, Willie, and a hired man
named Mullens, on the other. Rosser,
and three of the Whites were killed,
and Rosser's son and the other White
were wounded. Mullin was not to be
found. The trouble grew out of an at
tempt by Rosser to eject the Whites
from a property which they had bought
of him, but failed to pay for. Detective
Hulligan, assaulted by rufians on the
railroad train near Ravenna, Ohio,
died on the morning of the Sth in
Cleveland. He leaves a widow and
four children.
Benjamin Chamberlain, bookkeeper
for Combs, Hannah Il Co, at the stock
yards in Chicago, who was arrested
some time ago on the charge Of embeZ-
Element, and discharged, was re-arres-
ted on the 18th and bailed IN $4,000. 1t
is said his shortage" amounts to
S11, 900.
Two freight trains collided early
on the morning Of the Sth, nea Dubois,
Georgia, wrecking the engines. A
tramp was killed and one of the engi-
neeTs injured. The injured engineer
and his fireman are supposed to have
been asleep.
-Elgin. Illinois, awoke on the morn
ing of the 9Th to find itse.f suffering
from a severe flood. All over tie town
cellars were filed with water There
was water to the depth of several feet
in Cooks Publishing House, and the
Easements of stores were inundated.
The Chicago street railway bridge was
partially washed away, and it vas re-
ported that tie dam at Algonq IN, a
few miles north of the city, had been
destroyed. The Susquehanna river at
Lock Haven rose rapidly on the Sth. in
consequence of heavy rains. All the
tributaries were swollen, and at We
than the Philadelphia and Erie Rail-
road tracks were overlooked. The
river at Wllliamsport reached a height
of seventeen feet on the evening Of the
9Th, and the ice was running down
AS a train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and indianapolis Railroad
was crossing the line between In
diana and Ohio on tho 7th, a bullet
crashed through the window of a pas
car, passing closely in front of
the head of A. p. Mitchell, of the
firm of Vallette Il Mitchell, New
York, and burying itself in the wood
work of the other side of the car. The
scoundrel who fired the shot is I'M
known. Train wreckers on the 9TH
removed a rail on the Carolina Central
Railroad neal Charlotte, North Caro-
lima, and an engine and tender were in
consequence thrown down a twelve
foot embankment. Two train hands
were dangerously injured.
"A heavy snow storm prevailed in
Northern Montana on the evening of
the 9th, and there Is now from IA to
"a inches of snow on the ground on a
level. There is terrible suffering
the cattle, food is scarce, and
coal is selling at 500 a ton. The In
dian Commissioners have been snow
bound at Choteau since January 26th.
Heavy rain fell during the even
ing of the 7th and the morning of the
Sth at Chicago. 1t cleared about eight
o'clock, and the temperature grew
&C. A. Heller, a commercial trav-
eler from New York, was arrested IN
Montgomery, Alabama, on the 7th, for
violating the law imposing a license
tax of ten dollars for the State and five
for the county. He was found
on the morning of the Sth, in
the County Court and paid the fine and
costs, amounting to ffty-hve dollars.
Immediately on mis- release he was re-
arrested on a warrant sworn out by the
who arrested him, charging him
with bribery In Offering the officer five
dollars not to execute the first warrant
of arrest. On the last charge he was
bound over to await the action Of the
Grand Jury, giving bond for two hun
bred and fifty dollars.
Edward Loew, city editor of the
Arbeiter Zetung, IN Milwaukee, was
on the It'll, sentenced by Judge Sloan
to thirty days labor in the House OF